You really can fail as an actor/actress, or as a producer, in Hollywood, and the Hollywood type of failure can be permanent. But you can never fail as a writer as long as you keep writing and have something to say or a story to tell. You can do it your whole life, and your looks don’t matter. There are so many ways for a writer to find an audience, you just have to accept that most of those audiences won’t make you rich or famous.